Beyond the Limits of Thought

Graham Priest

Beyond the Limits of Thought

Graham Priest

Description

This second and extended edition of Priest's classic includes new chapters on Heidegger and Nagarjuna, as well as reflections on reactions to the first edition. Praise for previous edition: "a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher..."--Philosophical Quarterly "[H]ighly entertaining and provocative...an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude..."--TLS

Beyond the Limits of Thought

Graham Priest

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroductionThe limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy 1. The limits of expression2. The limits of iteration3. The limits of cognition4. The limits of conceptionThe limits of thought in Kant and Hegel 5. Noumena and the categories6. Kant's antinomies7. Hegel's infinitiesLimits and the paradoxes of self-reference 8. Absolute infinity9. Vicious circles10. Parameterization11. Sets and classesLanguage and its limits 12. The unity of thought13. Translation, reference, and truth14. Consciousness, rules, and différancePost terminum15. Hiedegger and the grammar of being16. Nagarjuna and the limits of thought17. Further reflectionsBibliography; Index